Dylan Moran Quotes

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

I think I will die laughing.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

I like squirm-laughing.

It's a great gift to be able to make people laugh.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a reality show, or a talk show, or a special, or a book. However I can make people laugh, that's what I want to do.

It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill"

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.